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...Administration had to stave off one crippling amendment after another. Congressman Ed Rees, a Kansas lawyer-farmer, proposed to kill all mention of low-rent housing. His amendment almost got through. A standing vote on Rees's amendment went down by one vote and Rees demanded a teller count, taken by queuing up in two groups-yes or no-and marching past the counters. Rees won then by 168-165. But on a final roll-call vote, Administration forces were able to beat Rees by a bare 209-204 vote. All through these nervous moments, Speaker Sam Rayburn...
...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
Both arguments are invalid. There was a serious low-rent housing shortage (and it is in low-rent housing that the present shortage exists) before controls were even considered. The 1933 figures show this. And the present federal controls include "hardship clauses," especially written to let the landlord secure rent-hikes if he can show that his income is seriously falling relative to his costs. More than that, for the last few years real-estate operators have been using leases as a very effective anti-tenant weapon, keeping people paying on an insecure month-to-month basis, unless they agree...
...Construction of 1,000,000 low-rent housing units...
...listening to 50 witnesses, the Senate Labor Committee got down to the business of writing a new labor law to replace Taft-Hartley. The Banking Committee, with the support of 22 Senators from both sides of the aisle, brought out a housing bill which would provide 810,000 low-rent housing units by 1955, just about halfway between Harry Truman's request and Republican counterproposals...